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Keep Your Eyes On The Prize Chords by Pete Seeger

Keep Your Eyes On The Prize chords by Pete Seeger

Guitar chords with lyrics

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Pete Seeger

Verse 1:

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Paul and Silas bound in jail

Had no money for to go their bail

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!
Verse 2:
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Paul and Silas thought they was lost

Dungeon shook and the chains come off

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Verse 3:
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Freedom's name is mighty sweet

And soon we're gonna meet

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
         Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Verse 4:
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I got my hand on the gospel plow

Won't take nothing for my journey now

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Chorus:
           Dm7        Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on!

Verse 5:
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Only chain that a man can stand

Is that chain o' hand on hand

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Verse 6:
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I'm gonna board that big greyhound

Carry the love from town to town
Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Chorus:
            Dm7          Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
        Am
Hold on! Hold on!


Verse 7:
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Now only thing I did was wrong

Stayin' in the wilderness too long


Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Verse 8:
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The only thing we did was right

Was the day we started to fight

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
        Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Chorus:
            Dm7          Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on!

Verse (7 repeat):
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The only thing we did was wrong

Staying in the wilderness too long

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Verse (8 repeat):
Am
The only thing we did was right

Was the day we started to fight

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on!


Verse 9:
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Ain't been to heaven but I been told

Streets up there are paved with gold

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on! Hold on!

Chorus:
          Dm7         Em
Keep your eyes on the prize
     Am
Hold on!

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